Redefining Cut-Points for High Symptom Burden of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease Classification in 18,577 Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

• Main Authors: Dionne E. Smid, Frits M.E. Franssen, Maria Gonik, Marc Miravitlles, Ciro Casanova, Borja G. Cosio, Pilar de Lucas-Ramos, Jose M. Marin, Cristina Martinez, Isabel Mir, Joan B. Soriano, Juan P. de Torres, Alvar Agusti, Nart B. Atalay, Julia Billington, Afroditi K. Boutou, Stefanie Brighenti-Zogg, Emma Chaplin, Samantha Coster, James W. Dodd, Selina Dürr, Alberto Fernandez-Villar, Miriam T.J. Groenen, Miguel Guimarães, Karel Hejduk, Victoria Higgins, Nicholas S. Hopkinson, Nobuyuki Horita, Sarah Houben-Wilke, Daisy J.A. Janssen, Melissa Jehn, Rudolf Joerres, Annika Karch, Julia L. Kelly, Yu Il Kim, Hiroshi Kimura, Vladimir Koblizek, Janwillem H. Kocks, Samantha S.C. Kon, Namhee Kwon, Inês Ladeira, Sang Do Lee, Joerg D. Leuppi, Nicholas Locantore, José L. Lopez-Campos, William D-C Man, Lana Maricic, Laura Mendoza, David Miedinger, Florin Mihaltan, Seigo Minami, Thys van der Molen, Trevor J. Murrells, Nienke Nakken, Yu Nishijima, Ian J. Norman, Barbora Novotna, Denis E. O'Donnell, Yoshitaka Ogata, Eanes D. Pereira, James Piercy, David Price, Chaicharn Pothirat, Natya Raghavan, Thomas Ringbaek, Dimitar Sajkov, Naseh Sigari, Sally Singh, Mark Small, Guilherme F. da Silva, Rebecca J. Tanner, Ioanna G. Tsiligianni, Baykal Tulek, Nikolaos Tzanakis, Lowie E.G.W. Vanfleteren, Henrik Watz, Katherine A. Webb, Emiel F.M. Wouters, Guogang G. Xie, Masanori Yoshikawa, Martijn A. Spruit
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Medicine; Nursing
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85034568244&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/57574
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

© 2017 AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine Background Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can be classified into groups A/C or B/D based on symptom intensity. Different threshold values for symptom questionnaires can result in misclassification and, i...